IED Diffused at SF Starbucks
Honestly, I’m surprised that we’re not seeing more of this.
Police defused an explosive device found in the bathroom of a Starbucks on Monday. No one was injured.
Authorities were called around 1:15 p.m., after an employee reported finding something suspicious in the store’s bathroom. About 100 people were evacuated from the store and apartments above it, and the street was closed to traffic, said Sgt. Neville Gittens.
“This was a good device. If it had exploded, it would have caused injuries or damage,” said Gittens, who would not describe its size.
Once the device was disabled at about 2:10 p.m., police allowed people back into the apartment building and reopened the street. The store, located at a busy city intersection, remained closed Monday evening while authorities investigated.
I’m going to take a wild guess and pin this on Islamic radicals. The odds are certainly in favor of that. But regardless of whether or not this specific incident was the work of Islamic terrorists, it causes me to wonder why such groups aren’t planting bombs at Starbucks of McDonalds or shopping malls on a weekly basis.
If America is the Great White Satan, as Islamic radicals repeatedly claim, why aren’t they doing more to hurt us? Placing an improvised explosive device at a Starbucks is fairly cheap. There’s only a slim chance of getting caught. And while the human toll might not be great, the effect on our economy would be quite large if a dozen or so coffee shop incidents were to occur.
It can’t be that we’re keeping the terrorists out. Our borders are as open as they’ve ever been. I see a few possibilities: they’re more organized than we think, and are saving up for one hell of an attack, or they’re all shipping out to the Middle-East to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, or they don’t really hate us as much as they say, and just use America-hatred as a recruiting tool. It also could be that they lack any organization at all in this country, and don’t have the initiative to act on their own.
Yeah, I’m back!
Update: the “bomb” turned out to be a flashlight left by the friendly neighborhood hobo.
